Use double-quotes to surround your plugins and single-quotes for plugin options. For example: VDR="$vdrbin -L $vdrlib" PLUGINS="-Pfemon -P'softdevice -vo xv:full -ao alsa:mixer:pcm=default'" eval "$VDR $PLUGINS" & _______________________________________________ vdr mailing list vdr@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vdr